The Vanderkloot Story Table of Contents
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The Vanderkloot Story Table Of Contents Version: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Introduction ..................................................................................................................4 Prelude ............................................................................................................6 Reader Tips .....................................................................................................8 Origins ........................................................................................................................10 The Vanderkloot Branch .......................................................................................10 Origins of Our 18th Century van der Kloots ..................................................10 Origin of the van der Kloot Name ..................................................................12 Origins of our 19th Century van der Kloots ...................................................14 Cocksdorp, Home of the Vanderkloots ........................................................20 Excerpts from Het Land van Texel .................................................................22 Excerpts from Kroniek van Eijerland ..............................................................23 The Tanis Branch .................................................................................................24 Our Tanis Family Origins ................................................................................24 Dutch Naming Customs .......................................................................................27 Our Families in America .............................................................................................30 Marinus and Meise Vanderkloot Chapters ...........................................................30 The Marinus and Meise Vanderkloot Family ..................................................30 History of Chicago: Vanderkloot Chapter ......................................................31 History of the Vanderkloot Iron Works ...........................................................33 Matthijs and Trijntje Vanderkloot Chapters ...........................................................36 The Matthijs and Trijntje Vanderkloot Family .................................................36 Adrianus and Martha Vanderkloot Chapters ........................................................39 The Adrianus and Martha Vanderkloot Family ...............................................39 History of 7047 S. Ada ..................................................................................43 The Vanderkloot Story 1" Table of Contents Our Ancient Haplogroup................................................................................ 47 Cornelius and Gertrude Vanderkloot Chapters ....................................................48 Memories of Cornelius ..................................................................................48 Closing .......................................................................................................................50 Our Dutch Recipes ........................................................................................50 Our Dutch Children’s Rhymes .......................................................................54 Why They Came ............................................................................................57 Changing the Course of History ....................................................................59 The End of and Era ........................................................................................61 Bibliography ..................................................................................................63 Acknowledgements .......................................................................................64 Appendices ................................................................................................................66 Letters ..................................................................................................................66 John Eelman’s Letter to Hattie Eelman - June 28, 1906 ...............................66 Three Letters from Martha Vanderkloot to Marie Marie Denker .....................68 Martha Vanderkloot’s Letter to Marie Denker - Sept 18, 1920 ......................69 Martha Vanderkloot’s Letter to Marie Denker - Sept 20, 1920 ......................70 Martha Vanderkloot’s Letter to Marie Denker - Sept 30, 1920 ......................71 Marian Eastman’s Letter to Marge O’Dette - March 6, 1972 .........................73 Nancy Sayles's Letter to Dave Jordan - Jan 22, 1977 ..................................75 Nancy Sayles's 2nd Letter to Dave Jordan - 1977 ........................................76 Adrianus and Martha Vanderkloot Family Audio Tape - July 9, 1977 ............77 Nick Vanderkloot’s Letter to Dave Jordan - November 12, 1977 ..................80 J.A. Brink’s Letter to Dave Jordan - June 5, 1978 .........................................82 Dr. Al Vanderkloot’s Letter to Dave Jordan - March 3, 1979 .........................83 William VanDerKloot’s E-Mail to Dave Jordan - February 26, 1994 ...............84 William VanDerKloot’s E-Mail to Dave Jordan - May 23, 1994 ......................85 E-Mails .................................................................................................................86 The Vanderkloot Story 2" Table of Contents Ben Strand’s E-Mail to Dave Jordan - October 6, 1995 ................................86 Jan Nieuwenhuis’s E-Mail to Dave Jordan - March 14, 1995 ........................87 Associated Documents ..............................................................................................88 Additional Stories .................................................................................................88 Vanderkloot Records Collections .........................................................................89 Additional Letters ................................................................................................90 Memorabilia .........................................................................................................91 The Vanderkloot Story 3" Table of Contents Introduction As follows is The Vanderkloot Story, a compilation of what I have learned over three decades about the history of my Jordan family line. It is a long and complicated story but one I am sure you will enjoy. This Introduction provides some background and housekeeping for this and related documents along with the relationship with the associated web pages. For ease of use, the above Table of Contents includes active links along with a simplified genealogy chart to assist in selecting items of interest. Merely touch the line or page number to move to a section of interest. In order to help preserve our family history and to make that history more widely available, Our Vanderkloot Family Web Pages was created in the early years of the 21st century. While quite successful in its goals, it became clear with the passage of time, that a web site with many hundreds of pages was not easy to print or to electronically download. Thus in the later part of the first decade of the 21st century, I began to compile various categories of information such as Vanderkloot Family Addresses, Vanderkloot Family Census Records, Vanderkloot Genealogy Source Records, and the Vanderkloot Stories into pdf documents. Such pdf files will make it easier to download files for preservation on our many computers and they will also allow much easier printing of pages and for studied analysis as desired. As part of this effort, a Vanderkloot and Tanis PDF Downloads web page was created. From this page, all currently available pdf’s from Our Vanderkloot Family Web Pages and out Our Tanis Family Web Pages can be accessed. You are encouraged to download the various Vanderkloot and Tanis pdf files, not only for your own study but to also help preserve for future generations hard to obtain data and information about our common Vanderkloot, Tanis and Jordan origins and history. Files are updated every once in a while, and checking about once a year is a reasonable frequency. Version dates are shown at the beginning of the Table of Contents. File Information Master File Name: Stories_Vanderkloot Author: Dave Jordan Creation Date: mid-2000 Modified: 3/12/2006, 4/18/2007, 10/10/2007, 12/6/2012, 10/11/17 Contact If you wish to comment, add information or just say hello, please contact Dave Jordan at [email protected]. The Vanderkloot Story 4" Introduction What’s New Going forward it is intended to briefly describe what major items were added since the last version of this document. 1. 10/11/17: Miscellaneous format updates. 2. 12/6/2012: Primarily formatting changes and fixes of a few typo’s along with some reorganization. File Connections As follows are other files that connect with The Vanderkloot Story. All are available at Vanderkloot and Tanis PDF Downloads as individual pdf documents with titles and file names as listed below. 1. The Vanderkloot Story File: Stories_Vanderkloot.pdf Summary: The Vanderkloot Story provides a written history of the origins of our Vanderkloot and out Tanis family. As part of this story there are many appendices and sections. 2. Recollections of the Vanderkloots File: Recollections_Vanderkloot.pdf Summary: Recollections of the Vanderkloots provides a collection of short anecdotes and memories of our Vanderkloot family. 3. Historical Vanderkloot Family Addresses File: Addresses_Vanderkloot_Historical.pdf